Harrison, Thomas Johnson, Private, 5869, 28th Battalion, Australian Infantry
Born Tideswell, Derbyshire
Killed in action 1st June 1918 aged 25
Son of Leon and Elizabeth Harrison, of Primrose Cottage, Tideswell, Buxton, Derbyshire, England.
Buried in Franvillers Communal Cemetery Extension, I, D, 13

Thomas Harrison enlisted on the 6th June 1916 at Blackboy Hill Camp in Western Australia. He was employed as a dairy hand.
He stated his next of kin as his mother, Mrs. L. Harrison, of Primrose Cottage, Tideswell, Derbyshire. Five feet seven and three quarter inches tall, he weighed 144 pounds, had a fair complexion, brown eyes and brown hair, and belonged to the Church of England. He had four vaccination marks on his left arm.

1911 Census
An assistant grocer
Boarding at the home of Joseph William Harrison, an assistant grocer, of Buxton Road, Tideswell, Derbyshire

Tideswell
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Tideswell (St. John the Baptist) Church
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